Laskowski-Jones (2007) stated “I’m sure both my position in the hospital and my education as a trauma nurse allowed me a rare privilege that isn’t typically offered to families” (p. 47). This opportunity should be offered to all families, as a rule, and not the exception because of stature. The purpose of the review should families be allowed during resuscitation; was to investigate if medical professionals concerns were supported. Will families have emotional scars from the experience of witnessing resuscitative efforts or will the grieving process be
This, in turn, was a learning experience for me. My experiences prepared me for my mother’s terminal situation where my family did not have that base of knowledge and experience to draw from. It has made me much more empathetic to those who don’t have my level of experience to understand what is happening with their loved one. There are many times when I disagree with a course of action a family chooses for their loved one but, I have learned to accept their choices as the right choice for that family. A family who has to make any choice, whether it be palliative or “full steam ahead”, in the presence of a terminal situation for their loved one, is brave.
The programme has now been rolled out across almost every ward and care environment and both the results and the patient feedback are excellent. Janette Vyse is the Lead Nurse for Participation and Patient Experience at Birmingham Children's Hospital. She is an advocate of making sure that patients and carers are involved in their own care and that their views about improvements across the hospital are listened to and acted on. She also believes that patient experience information should be a core principle of their care and not regarded as an “add on”. Janette describes how staff at Birmingham Children’s Hospital have been encouraged to build protected time into their shifts to talk to parents, carers and patients about their experience.
Marie is directing patient centered care, but culturally, Carla prefers her family around her to support her and her help make decisions while Carla is recovering. One of the visitors in Carla’s room may be a partera who is helped Carla with the delivery and is helping with recovery. Carla may even have a trusted family member that will make decisions for her (Potter, Perry, Stockert & Hall, 2013). Delivering care to a patient in a way that is respectful to the patient and their family is crucial for several reasons. Culturally congruent care means taking in to account the beliefs and traditions of the patient and working them into the care plan.
She also brings up throughout the writing how she and her friends discussed entering a relationship or marriage with belief of co-parenting was attainable. She discusses equality in the household and how it takes both to obtain it but there are sides that will be out weighing the other. Hope brings up the fact of how when she was a child her mother would stay at home full time and maintain the house while her father was always out working to provide for the family and that she rarely saw him. She compared that to her marriage currently and they see how women are offered all the same opportunities now so that should help to create co-parenting, where parents work and both parents try to help take care of the household . She realizes that it isn't as easy as it sounds Hope brings up the miscommunications between the two of them.
Family Nursing Diagnoses Kristine R August 30.2013 NUR/405 Joni Knapp, RNC, MSN Family Nursing Diagnoses As a patient is considered to be individual and unique in his or her own way, a family is one and distinctive within a community. According to Stanhope and Lancaster (2012), a family nursing assessment identifies family problem areas and family strengths that help build for interventions to maintain health. In providing a family with nursing diagnoses, utilization of an appropriate family assessment tool would be of benefit. One family assessment model used by community health nurses is the Friedman Family Assessment Model (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2012). Friedman’s model views family as a subsystem of society and enables nurses to assess the family system as a whole, as a component of society, and as an interactional system (Stanhope & Lancaster, 20012).
How the ANA Code of Nursing Ethics would influence a final decision in each case study. With the patient with the hemorrhagic stroke, it is our responsibility to discuss with the patient’s family possible options in which they would feel comfortable taking. According to the Code of Nursing Ethics, “the nurse’s primary commitment is to the patient, whether an individual, family, group, or community” (ANA Code of Nursing Ethics). With the patient having no advanced directives, the decision is much harder to take. Ethics committees can be useful in this situation, because they can help explain the patient’s situation and provide possible answers to those hard questions.
Completing this assignment gave some insight into the real world of nursing not just what you see on TV. , or read in a book or magazine. This interviewee showed that even later in life you can reach your goal of becoming a nurse, regardless of your age, or your family status. Doing this assignment makes one think into the future and gives good reference on how you should carry yourself and act in the nursing world, especially once you receive a title of RN. Taking care of patients takes a special type of person, and Cassandra Hetzel is the model RN.
Family Health Assessment Vann Joyner Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V May 9, 2015 Family Health Assessment One of the factors in planning care and health promotion for a patient is overall family support system . When a patient is ill it not only affects them but their family members as well. One tool used by a nurse to help collect family data is the family health assessment. Family health assessment aims at using a holistic approach to ensure the health of individuals, communities and families to ensure that care remains client centered. It focuses on ensuring that families acknowledge their health needs and address them by planning proper intervention strategies.
Some people’s physical and mental abilities deteriorate faster than others’. This does not mean that the elderly population does not deserve respect. I am not biased toward the elderly. When I take care of my patients, whether my patients are elderly, homeless, or alcoholic, I always see myself in them and think that I will be in that bed one day. I also believe that family members should support their elderly parents or grandparents because when they were young, the elderly were the ones who care for them; so, now it is their responsibility to care for the elderly.